The Seven Secrets of Art (and a few more...)
Philip Koch, The Roof, oil on canvas, 20 x 14 inches, Somerville Manning Gallery , Greenville, DE Edward Hopper and Charles Burchfield are two painters who have exerted enormous helpful influence on my work. Hopper wrote almost nothing about art. Burchfield filled literally thousands of pages with his observations on painting. I guess I fall kind of in between those two. I am shortly going to be leaving teaching my final course at MICA and moving to being a full time painter, an exciting prospect. Below is a list of ideas I'm going to be giving my art students tomorrow. They're general advice distilled down to just bullet points. Some of them may just provoke more questions. But maybe that's the idea. The 7 Secrets of Art (and a few more...) . #1. That there are secrets and mystery in art. #2. Art is a language with its own grammar. There are in fact rules-